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No Place Like It

I’ve probably written this before, but I’m going to do it again because enough can’t be said about how insanely diverse the diving in Komodo is. There is only one other place in the world that I know of, Raja Ampat, where in one single day you can dive in one of the world’s best manta sites with huge congregations of reef mantas, to incredible reefs where the schools of fish can at times block out the sun, and finish it off with some critter diving where blue ring octopus and and flamboyant cuttle fish are regular log book entries. Oh, and the hills above the turquoise water roams giant prehistoric carnivorous lizards! There is no place else like it in the world, I can guarantee you that.

This trip was critter crazy and kickstarted with a bang on the first night! We had a great night dive at the picturesque Satonda Island halfway to Komodo National Park. Stargazers, Ambon scorpionfish, seamoths, robust ghostpipefish, skeleton and mantis shrimps …

Another trip with beautiful conditions – clear blue water and just enough current to bring all the good stuff in! The seamounts in North Komodo were packed with fish, and we found ourselves totally embedded in Surgeonfish, Snappers and Fusilliers …

Highlight this trip’s gotta be the Mantas in the south of the Komodo National Park. Famous for its cleaning stations, with any luck you’ll see these majestic rays lining up to get fixed by hundreds of cleaner fish. With good …